What is a Green Technology? It is technology that minimizes the impact of humans on the environment.

Traditional directories such as the White Pages and the Yellow Pages, although they have a web presence now, produce contact directories that use up enormous numbers of trees. These trees, of course, are used to make paper for phone books.

These books are usually thrown away after just one year and the whole tree cutting process starts again.

A Dot Org website called ‘Ban the Phone Book’ estimates that 5 million trees are cut down every year to make them. This is a stunning number of trees. This website has been covered in major US Newspapers such as the NY Times.

Although tree felling provides jobs it severely damages the environment even if the forests are so-called renewable. Waterways, wildlife, and ecosystems are affected badly.

This problem with paper directories is solved by the Dot Tel Domain. There is no paper in a Dot Tel Domain. There are no phone books. If you want to look up something you open your web browser, and enter the directory’s address, and you are there.

Any device with an internet connection can find a Dot Tel Domain. This includes web enabled mobile phones, and PCs.

Dot Tel Directories can be for products, people, businesses, or anything else that has contact information. Another major issue is that anything that updating a Dot Tel is nearly instantaneous.

With a phone book you don’t get updated until the following year when the new one comes out, although the companies now have website presences as well.

There are technical reasons why the traditional phone directory companies operating on Dot Coms or top level domain country extensions can not compete with a Dot Tel. These are to do with the location of the data. A full explanation is beyond the scope of this article.

With the internet continuing to grow in use we can hope that this Green Technology grows with it, and that eventually no trees are cut down to make phone books.

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Active Directory Group Membership Report – Listing Across Domains and Forests

An in-depth user/group membership report must include all the groups that a user is member of across the entire AD organization (and not just the groups within one domain).

In a multiple forest environment, When we add a member from one domain to a group in another domain (from a trusted domain outside of that forest), Active Directory automatically creates a special object called a foreign security principal (FSP) in the CN=ForeignSecurityPrincipals container in the domain NC.

Active Directory creates a foreign security principal object in a forest when objects from its trusted external forest are assigned group membership and security for trusting the forest’s objects. The users and groups of the external forest are represented by foreign security principals in the trusting forest and is necessary for them to access domain resources that exist in that forest. When a trust is established between domains across forests, these foreign security principals can become members of ‘domain local groups’ in the source domain.

In order to generate a report on all user memberships, you need a tool that runs through all user memberships across domains and if there are multiple forests with FSPs, then the membership across forests will have to be generated. For example, a complete membership listing of a User A, who is present in multiple domains across multiple forests, will show all groups that User A is a member of (including Domain Local Groups).

Admin Report Kit for Active Directory (ARKAD) generates such complex user/group membership reports.

How to view all security principals in all domains within a single forest in ARKAD? (A security principal can be a user, group, service, or Computer). The Forest Reports feature in ARKAD allows the user to generate reports across domains in a forest. (Select ‘Forest Reports…’ under New Report button in the tool bar. The Forest Reports window with the list of reports will be displayed; Select a report from the list of reports. Click Next to proceed to the next steps).

I have been working with Vyapin Software Systems for than three years as the Head-Customer Services, finishing my Master Degree in Marketing. I follow up product downloads and I am responsible for any evaluation related client queries. For more information about Active Directory Reports – Windows Reporting Tool.